Nation: A Game with Death

In the film Ordinary People, she plays the part of an excessively
reserved and poised matron who proves incapable of helping her
18-year-old son, who has attempted suicide. After the movie was
released last month, Actress Mary Tyler Moore, 42, acknowledged that
she prepared for the part by drawing on her experiences in raising her
own son from her first marriage, Richard Carlton Meeker Jr., 24. Said
she: "I was kind of a perfectionist mother, and I demanded a lot of
him. I think I was responsible...